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Japan

A presentation on poverty measurement in Japan was made by Aya Abe, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (NIPSSR), at the Second Peter Townsend Memorial Conference, Measuring Poverty: The State of the Art, in 2011.

This presentation reports the findings of a 2003 survey (sample 1,350) that asked respondents which of a list of 28 items covering various aspects of life (both material and social) they thought were ‘necessary’ to live normally in Japan.

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PSE:UK is a major collaboration between the University of Bristol, Heriot-Watt University, The Open University, Queen's University Belfast, University of Glasgow and the University of York working with the National Centre for Social Research and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. ESRC Grant RES-060-25-0052.